Lot 6160: Narputta Nangala Jugadai (born 1933)

60 x 48in (167 x 120.5cm)
Synthetic polymer paint on linen canvas
Artist's name, size, Ikuntji Womens Centre Catalogue # 1K01NJ35 2/01 on reverse.

Provenance:
Ikuntji Womens Art Centre – Haasts Bluff, Alice Springs, NT
Australian Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, U.S.A.
Private American Collection

Lampintja is Narputta's mother country, five miles west of Karrkurutintya, or Lake Macdonald. In this painting Narputta has split the canvas into four parts with repetitive lines representing sandhills. Top left there is kungka or woman looking for bush tucker, top right, another kungka is hunting with a nullanulla for kurrkadi or sand goanna. The lower left contains a kurrkadi with nullanulla and lower right a nullanulla and coolamon completes the hunting scene.

The painting comes with a certificate and story from Ikuntji Womens Art Centre, Haas Bluff, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.